Him se yldesta andswarode; werodes wisa, wordhord onleac.
"That noblest of men answered him; the leader of the warrior band unlocked his wordhoard."

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Brian Fagan's The Great Warming

Here's an audio interview of Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. The recording is very soft; I had to turn up the volume on my speakers all the way to make it out. The headline on the front page of the National Review website ran, "Brian Fagan says global warming was a positive force in the development of the West during the Middle Ages." Uh, no ... he says it was both good and bad, depending. A far more accurate description is that found on the "Between the Covers" page, which states that Fagan argues that "the warming period of 800-1200 A.D. had its good and bad sides."

Prof. Fagan has been an archaeological consultant for many organizations, including National Geographic Society, he is one of the most trained people in the world to talk about the climate change!!22dd